SKATE

Scan

100

Circle the...

What is Title?

200

P stands for...

What is Poetry?

300

Star pictures and...

What is make predictions?

400

Once upon a time...

What is Traditional Literature?

500

Literary NonFiction

What is a biography?

Know

100

Read the questions before the passage so...

What is have a purpose for reading?

200

The author most likely wrote this passage to...

What is author's purpose?

300

Circle...

What is important words in the question?

400

Know what?

What is the questions?

500

Text + Background Knowledge =

What is inferencing?

Annotate

100

Mostly about...

What is main idea?

200

B M E and no details

What is summary?

300

Subheadings, maps, diagrams, pictures, and captions are...

What is text features?

400

Find meaning of words using...

What is context clues?

500

Identify details for...

What is questions?

Text Evidence

100

If the question asks you about paragraph 2 you should...

Go back and read paragraph 2!

200

Look back in the passage for...

details

300

If they ask you to infer or conclude you need to find...

clues

400

Summary should have

B M E

500

If you don't know what a word means use...

context clues

Eliminate Answers

100

Mark wrong answer choices with...

What is an X?

200

Mark possible correct answers with...

What is M for Maybe?

300

After you choose an answer you should...

What is bubble your scan (dark and neat)?

400

If you get stuck in a question...

What is skip the question and come back to it at the end?

500

If you have 2 possible answers you should...

What is read the question again?